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Altre immaginiVariorum. Broad Grins; Advice to Julia, A Letter in Rhyme; The Pleasure of Making a Will; Sketches of Young Ladies: In Which These Interesting Members of the Animal Kingdom are Classified, According to Their Several Instincts, Habits and General Characteristics; Sketches of Young Gentlemen; Sketches of Young Couples: With an Urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England (Being Bachelors or Widowers), on the Present Alarming Crisis; A New Art Teaching How to be Plucked After the Fashion of Aristotle Writ for the Use of Students in the Universities to Which is Added a Synopsis of Drinking; The Devil's Walk, A Poem. 8 volumes in 1.
Colman, George; [Luttrell, Henry]; [Kitchiner, William]; Quiz [Caswell, Edward]; [Dickens, Charles]; Scribelerus Redivivus [Caswell, Edward]; Professor Porson [Coleridge, Samuel Taylor & Southey, Robert]
Editore: Printed by J. Mcreery for T Cadell and W. Davies / John Murray / Printedfor Hurst Robinson, and Co. / Chapman and Hall / J. Vincent / Marsh andMiller 1819 / 1820 / 1822 / 1837 / 1840 / 1836, London / Oxford 1819
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Aggiungi al carrelloFull Morocco. Condizione: Very Good. viii, 123; [iv], 192; 20; viii, 80; viii, 76; 92; viii, p.40; viii, 34 pp. Full black morocco, bearing gilt lettering and decoration to the spine alongside gilt ruling, devices, and turn ins to the boards. All edges gilt. With in-text illustrations and engraved plates throughout. some edgewea…r at the spine and corners, with scratching and faint white markings to the spine and boards. Slight lean to binding. Occasional spots and pencil inscriptions throughout. With a Malayan and British Borneo dollar, dated 1941, loosely enclosed in the prelims. This volume, privately bound, brings together 8 early 19th century titles of humorous, witty and satirical prose and verse. Volume 1: Broad Grins by English dramatist George Colman the Younger. Formerly published under the title 'My Night-Gown and Slippers', this edition of Colman's humorous writings includes a number of additional coarse, satirical verses. Volume 2: The first edition of Henry Lutrell's Advice to Julia, his most famous work of London society verse. Volume 3: The Pleasure of Making a Will, which is an extract from William Kitchiner's 'The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life'. Volume 4: The first edition of Sketches of Young Ladies by "Quiz" [Edward Caswall], illustrated by "Phiz". Volume 5: The first edition of Sketches of Young Gentlemen by Charles Dickens, also illustrated by "Phiz", written as a satirical response to Caswall's Sketches of Young Ladies (the previous title in this volume). Volume 6: The first edition of Sketches of Young Couples by Charles Dickens, illustrated by "Phiz". Following on from Sketches of Young Gentlemen, this title was the second and last in series of humerous sketches by Dickens. Volume 7: A New Art Teaching How to Be Plucked by Scribelerus Redivivus [Edward Caswall], providing a satirical treatise on the 'art' of failing exams. With a fold out 'Synopsis of Drinking' at p.22. Volume 8: The Devil's Walk: A Poem, jointly written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, published under the pseudonym Professor Porson. 12mo. Illustrated.
